Scattering Seed in Eastern Europe MICHAEL MANDELBAUM, Michael Mandelbaum, the author of "The Fate of Nations: The Search for National Security in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," met with the leaders of the government and the opposition in Poland and Hungary last month as part of a group from the Council on Foreign Relations.

Clash on Immigration Is Avoidable CECILIA MUNOZ and GARY E. RUBIN, Cecilia Munoz is senior immigration policy analyst at the National Council of La Raza. Gary E. Rubin is program director of the American Jewish Committee. and